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The first known crane machine was the shaduf, a water-lifting device that was invented in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and then appeared in ancient Egyptian technology. Construction cranes later appeared in ancient Greece , where they were powered by men or animals (such as donkeys), and used for the construction of buildings.
A treadwheel crane survives at Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom. It was built in 1667 and formerly stood in the Naval Yard. It was moved to Harwich Green in 1932. The crane has two treadwheels of 16 feet (4.88 m) diameter by 3 feet 10 inches (1.17 m) wide on an axle 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (340 mm) diameter.
Harbour crane Rostock: Germany Lower Warnow: first crane in the 16th century; reconstruction from an 18th-century crane Wood Alter Salzkran Stade: Germany Schwinge 1661, in 1898 demolished, in 1977 reconstructed on the model of the Alter Krahn in Lüneburg: Wood Alter Saarkran: Saarbrücken: Germany Saar
Hiab invented the world's first hydraulic truck mounted crane in 1947. [3] The name, Hiab, comes from the commonly used abbreviation of Hydrauliska Industri AB, a company founded in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1944 by Eric Sundin, a ski manufacturer who saw a way to utilize a truck's engine to power loader cranes through the use of hydraulics.
The first mobile crane, the Traveling Derrick, was invented in 1895. It consisted of a revolving derrick and steam hoist mounted on a rail-car like wheels. The ditcher, a flatcar-mounted crane designed to excavate soil on either side of a railroad, was invented by Oliver Crosby in 1904. [4]
Crane: c. 515 BC Labor-saving device that allowed the employment of small and efficient work teams on construction sites. ... Invented by Heron based on Ctesibius ...
The new company received orders for hydraulic cranes from Edinburgh and Northern Railways and from Liverpool Docks, [7] as well as for hydraulic machinery for dock gates in Grimsby. The company soon began to expand. In 1850 the company produced 45 cranes and two years later, 75. It averaged 100 cranes per year for the rest of the century.
A Temperley transporter is an early form of overhead crane invented by John Ridley Temperley in 1892. [1] They were manufactured by the Temperley Transporter Company of London . [ 2 ]